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At CTO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco based CTO’ operating in the Retail space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Alex Vauthey
CTO & Co-founder of Curated
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About Curated: Curated is a provider of collaborative online shopping service intended to assist shoppers with high-consideration purchases.
Marcelo Cortes
Co-Founder & CTO of Faire
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About Faire: Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Marty Hu
Co-founder & CTO of Prodigy
Marty Hu is Co-Founder and CTO at Prodigy. Prior to this, he was a technical lead at Dropbox. He also co-founded and was the CEO of Predictive Edge from February to June, year 2014.
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About Prodigy, Upstart: Prodigy digitizes the process to save customers’ time while improving trust and satisfaction.
Chris Clark
Co-Founder & CTO of Grove Collaborative
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
Chris Estreich
Co-Founder & CTO of Tophatter
Chris Estreich Co-founded Blippy Inc. in 2009 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Chris Estreich served as a Senior Software Engineer at Oodle helping build the platform that powers MySpace, Walmart, and Facebook Classifieds. He graduated from Stanford in 2005 with a Degree in Computer Science.
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About Tophatter: Tophatter is revolutionizing the e-commerce landscape with a discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
Yash Nelapati
Co-founder and CTO of MakersPlace
Yash Nelapati is the co-founder and CTO at MakersPlace.
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About MakersPlace: MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Ratnakar Lavu
Chief Technology Officer & CIO of Kohl’s
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About Kohl’s, Nike: Kohl’s Corporation (Kohl’s) operate family-oriented department stores that sell apparel, footwear and accessories
Matt Darling
Chief Technology Officer of Madison Reed
Matt Darling is the chief technology officer of Madison Reed.
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About Madison Reed: Madison Reed is a beauty company revolutionizing the way women color their hair.
Mirza Shah
Co-Founder & CTO of Simbe Robotics
Mirza Shah is the Co-Founder and CTO at Simbe Robotics.
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About Simbe Robotics: Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics.
Jeremy Baker
Co-Founder and CTO of Zipline
Jeremy Baker is a developer and entrepreneur who has been involved in web design, online product development, and technology startups since 1997. He has designed and developed a wide range of projects — from small, innovative sites and tools to high-traffic business applications, from the server level all the way up to the business design level. As a Senior Prototyper at Yahoo! Inc., he developed tools and programs across the company, including an innovative Prototyping and Experimentation tool that was subsequently pushed out to nearly every Yahoo! property, and which won him the Yahoo! SuperStar award in 2010. Jeremy was also a regular guest speaker at universities worldwide as part of Yahoo!’s HackU program. Jeremy is a regular speaker on topics surrounding innovation and creativity. And his work and ideas have been featured on TechCrunch.com, Mashable.com, NYTimes.com, and other high profile publications. He is currently a co-founder of a well-funded enterprise software company based in San Francisco, CA. He also runs SupporterWall.com, an innovative online fundraising tool. Jeremy speaks English, French, and Spanish and has lived in Vancouver, San Francisco, Melbourne, and Mexico City. He and his wife currently call Vancouver, Canada home.
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About SupporterWall, Zipline: Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work.
Gareth Davies
CTO of Crisp
Gareth is the Founder & CEO of Adbrain, an award winning enterprise identity resolution company, acquired by Trade Desk Inc (NASDAQ:TTD). A recognized leader at the intersection of data, AI and marketing technology, Gareth brings over a decade’s experience in senior operational roles at companies including Google, DoubleClick and Somo. Gareth is a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Mobile Council, San Francisco tech entrepreneur group GBX, and Tech London Advocates, championing entrepreneurship and growth in the UK capital – in addition to being an active advisor across a number of high growth data and AI businesses. In 2017, The American Marketing Associated named Davies ‘4 under 40’ in recognition of his contribution to innovation within marketing technology.
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About Crisp: Crisp leverages the cloud to connect and analyze retail data sources in real-time, providing actionable insights to businesses.
Rick Harrison
Co-Founder / CTO of Meadow
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About Meadow: Meadow builds connected cannabis retail, delivery, eCommerce, CRM, and marketing software for California’s legal cannabis industry.
Samuel Hoffstaetter
Co-Founder and CTO of Short Story
Samuel Hoffstaetter is the Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer at Short Story.
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About Short Story: Short Story is the first online retailer and top rated personal styling service focused exclusively on petite women’s sizing.
David Vetrano
Co-Founder & CTO of Onfleet
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About Onfleet: Onfleet is a technology company that develops last-mile delivery management software.
Jim Woodroffe
CTO of Survey.com
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About Survey.com: Survey.com empowers it’s customers with data and technology to offer targeted solutions to their specific retail challenges.
Brian Sathianathan
Co-Founder/Chief Digital Officer/CTO of Iterate.ai
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About Iterate.ai: AI-Powered Innovation Software Ecosystem for Large Enterprises
Mohith Julapalli
CTO & Co-Founder of skuIQ
CTO of Boutiika.
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About skuIQ: skuIQ helps retailers with one or more locations keep their inventory, orders and more, synced.
Aric Lasry
CTO of WeWard
Aric Lasry is the Chief Technology Officer at WeWard.
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About Producteev, WeWard: WeWard is a mobile app that converts steps into € and promotes drive to store.
Chris Finne
CTO of BSPK
Chris Finne is the Chief Technology Officer and Business Strategist for Aerialink. For over 21 years, Chris has designed, developed and deployed a wide variety of software for Fortune 500 enterprises as well as Silicon Valley consumer startups. He also advises software companies on strategy including acquisitions. Chris holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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About Aerialink, BSPK: BSPK is a digital platform that allows luxury brands to connect with their clients.
Rajas Lonkar
Co-founder and CTO of Fountain9
Rajas Lonkar is the Co-founder and CTO at Fountain9.
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About Fountain9: AI based demand sensing and dynamic replenishment
Prashant Kanhere
CTO of PayRange
Prashant is an entrepreneur at heart and loves to bring innovative new products to market. Over the years he’s led several world-class teams in FinTech, IOT and Consumer Electronics at startups as well as Fortune 500 companies including Apple and Verifone.
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About PayRange: PayRange is a network for everyday purchases developing a mobile payment technology to make mobile payments easy-to-use.
Nick Porter
Founder & CTO of 42 Technologies
Nick Porter is Founder & CTO at 42 Technologies, a big data platform focused on the retail industry.
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About 42 Technologies: 42 Technologies is an end-to-end data omnichannel analytics and reporting platform built for the retail industry.
Anna Sandler
Co- Founder and CTO of RobotLAB
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About Robot App Store, RobotLAB: RobotLAB builds and develop solutions to create Smart, Useful Robots for business and education.
Gregg Golembeski
Founding CTO of Dor
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About Dor: Dor specializes in providing retail traffic counting solution.
Emery Denuccio
Co-Founder & CTO of Symple
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About Symple: Symple is a cloud platform for business payments.
Ofri Harlev
CTO of InstantCustom
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About InstantCustom: InstantCustom is a dropshipper and seller of custom goods. Start your own ecommerce shop with us, and we’ll handle the manufacturing!
Adeel Ahmad
Co-Founder and CTO of POSTCART
Founder & CEO of Shopseen.
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About Cat Digital Labs, POSTCART, Shopseen: Sell. Simply. Social media and e-commerce in one simple step.
Brad Duffy
CTO & Advisor of KardZee
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About KardZee: Retention for Revenue, Repeat Business & Referrals thru Personalized Multichannel Marketing
Durai Balusamy
Chairman & CTO of Fitrrati
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About Fitrrati: Fitrrati is a cloud based & data driven personalized Fit Technology enterprise solution for fashion brands & e-tailers.
Samantha Tran
Co-Founder & CTO of Purple Go
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About Purple Go: Modern sales and operations platform for retail
Justin Mejorada-Pier
CTO of Theorem
Justin Mejorada-Pier is a software engineer at [Pinterest](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pinterest), a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas. He previously worked as the chief technology officer of Theorem. Mejorada-Pier also worked at Ooyala as a software engineering manager. Mejorada-Pier holds a bachelor’s degree in mechatronics from Tecnológico de Monterrey.
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About Theorem: Marketplace for Independent Fashion
David Wilkins
Chief Technology Officer of PlantSense
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About PlantSense: PlantSense is a high tech startup that creates internet-enabled sensors for gardeners to select, manage and grow plants and vegetables.
